Notation

Notations that have been or could be used for composing/performing xenharmonic music

General systems

• Sagittal notation
• Ups and Downs Notation

ET

• Easley Blackwood's symbols for ETs 13-24
• Tartini/Couper for 31-EDO
• Julian Carrillo's index notation
• Armodue theory for 16-EDO and other EDOs that deals with the superdiatonic scale (LLLsLLLLs) (notation of numbers [from 1 ~ 9] and accidental symbols).
• The Pentadecaphonic System (adding the 'H' note)
• David S. Goldsmith's notation for 16-EDO
• H-System for 205-EDO
• Maneri-Sims, Richter Herf / Maedel for 72-EDO
• Wyschnegradsky color notation for 72-EDO
• Heptatonic notation

JI

• Ben Johnston's notation
• Helmholtz-Ellis notation
• Julien Jalaleddine Weiss (for Arabic, Turkish, Persian music)
• Kite's color notation (used in alt-tuner)
• Rational Comma Notation (RCN) by David Ryan. Compact notation for whole of free-JI, based on prime commas.

Regular temperaments

• Porcupine notation
• Ups and Downs Notation
• Pergen notation (ups/downs plus highs/lows)

All / none of the above

• Scordatura/tablature notation (various schemes)
• Tablets

Microtonal scores

Microtonal fonts

• Ted Mook's font for notating Ezra Sims' 72-EDO notation et al. http://www.mindspring.com/~tmook/micro.html
• Sagittal notation by George D. Secor & Dave Keenan. http://sagittal.org
• Helmholtz Ellis JI Notation Marc Sabat and Wolfgang von Schweinitz: http://www.plainsound.de/research/notation.pdf
• Tempera font by Christian Textier - does anyone use these crazy things? http://pros.orange.fr/christian.texier/mididesi/
• Matthew Hindson offers this font with quartertones and the like. http://www.hindson.com.au/wordpress/index.php/free-fonts-available-for-download/

Notation program/editors for microtonal music

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